Online medical advice is required by people in some situations whether it is an emergency situation or a normal case of an ailment. It is mostly needed by patients who fail to get enough time with their doctor in face-to-face situation. Below are provided some free online medical tools that can help patients in variety of ways.
- MedScape: This application for iPhone is can be used as updated drug reference tool. Especially for medical news and mobile CME, physicians & pharmacy directories and more.
- Lexi-Comp Individual Application: This application contains 30 day reach to all 32 databases pharmacogenomics, medical abbreviations, protocols for medical emergencies, etc for the iPhone and iPod touch. The database also includes images, charts, and tables.
- MedCalc (Medical Calculator): This is a free medical calculator that provides an easy access to a number of medical formulas and scores. It also includes detailed information and bibliographic references for each formula.
- ABG: This app is a multipurpose medical calculator that is used for task and functionality like analyzing arterial blood gasses; output a recommended FIO2, provide a determined pO2, FIO2 and a desired pO2, and; perform hemodynamic calculations applying the Fick principle.
- STAT Cardiac Clearance: This is an educational tool which guides the user on specific parts of the ACC/AHA 2007 guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and care for noncardiac surgery. This involves step-by-step cardiac evaluation and care algorithm for noncardiac surgery based on active clinical conditions, known cardiovascular disease, or cardiac risk factors for patients of 50 years or more than that.
- Eye Chart: A Snellen Eye Chart can be used by eye caring professionals to measure out the visual acuity. As the classic Snellen chart is typically placed at 20′ or 6m, pocket-sized versions such as present one provides useful screens for rough visual acuity.
- Diagnose the Disease Game: This application as in format of game checks out the clocks to diagnose the disease and test out the knowledge. This game let a player to select out the disease as the image appears on touch screen of iPhone. Physicians, nurses, medical students or others interested in medicine found this game to much interactive, educational and fun.
- Mental Illness: It is a very helpful application to discuss out the most important aspects of the mental health. This application is of great aid and help for all medical professionals, medical residents and interns, nurses and medical students.
- Psych Drugs: This application helps to learn about all the important and useful information about various psychotropic medications like as antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers and anti anxiety medications.
- Psyhe Terms: This application has a very rich collection of nearly 1000 and more regularly used psychiatric and mental health terms, phrases, and definitions acutely written for psychiatric and mental health terms, phrase and definitions. It is of great aid and use to be employable medical and mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, psychology students, therapists and counselors.
- Stat Growth Chart Lites: It helps in calculating percentile including the Body Mass Index-for-age charts. It also calculates blood pressure ranging from the The Fourth Report on Diagnosis, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.
- Pediatric Care Online (PCO): This application developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and powered by Unbound Medicine, Pediatric Care Online provides fast up to dated to the point guidance on the clinical problems that a pediatrician face during their day-to-day life.